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[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

Should have motors to adjust the lenght of a string to fit any body type and purpose. If your have a smaller body, you deserve it's standard 1.0 lenght, if you are a bit bigger, you get 1.3 lenght, if you want to put accents onto your cleavage with a device, you can hang it past 1.4, 1.5 even, and if you are an undesirable it rushes to -0.1 in two seconds, so it also destroys itself in the process and we can tell it's not a desired behavior.

[–] Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It'd be fun to get one for someone and reprogram/train it to scream "CUNT" periodically. Like a cursed amulet with coprolalia.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It doesn't have a speaker or any kind of sound output. Or even a screen. When you press the button to make a question, then you have to take out the phone from your pocket, open the app, and read the response on the screen. Can't think to a stupider way to waste $100. If anyway you need to take the phone out from your pocket, unlock it, and run the app to read the responses, what's the purpose of the hardware? A shittier microphone than the one you already have on the device with the screen?

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

Can't think to a stupider way to waste $100

Ha! Let me guess, you're not a billionaire?

Well that's shit!

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Especially if it yelled such words while impersonating their voice.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I'd love for something stupid like that. Just repeats things it's heard or downloaded off the internet. I'd buy one of those, without the spyware ofc. Edit: Oh, that's probably why pirates had pet parrots.

[–] NaibofTabr 4 points 1 day ago

Better yet, it could listen for other voices and intentionally yell obscenities when the owner is around strangers. Maybe also program it to whisper sometimes.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Marketing surveillance devices as desirable consumer products (like Alexa) is something that I reluctantly have to give capitalism props for. I mean, they haven’t just gotten people to accept bugging their own home, but they got people to pay for it as well! Yeah, it’s shitty, but it’s been done well.

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

This is why I leave my Alexa on the back of my toilet. I don't talk in the bathroom and all I get is personalized ads for bidets and toilet paper.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago

Sauron would have made a good tech oligarch. Took some advanced craft someone else invented, made personal wearable devices that were given out seemingly at a loss, only to have a centralized master control that lets them use them to manipulate the owners to benefit his political interests, which include personal power. Also appears to have a negative impact on the environment if Mordor's state has anything to do with his actions.

[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Actually, yeah. Y'know some of those cursed things could have just been "smart wear" or smth. A mysterious object that whispers lunacy and drives the holder into madness? Yeah, a "ai" necklace will do that.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I prefer this cursed amulet.

[–] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That framing makes me kinda interested.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Linus tech tips did a review. The device can’t actually talk it has to send you pings through an app on your phone. It also has a strict text limit so only 1-2 sentence replies each time.

[–] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh that's fuckin lame. If it had a scary voice, I'd be all in.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

When you first sign up you have to check a box that says, “I acknowledge that if I lose the Friend there is no possible way of recovering them”.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

This is bleak jfc

https://www.wired.com/story/friend-ai-pendant/

Open it in Firefox's reader mode to remove paywall.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

22-year old CEO who was given the infinite money cheat to roll this turd out of his colon.

Any free market economists want to weigh in on this one?

First, though, comes the fine print. The AI version of a friend comes with more than just packaging and a charger—it has paperwork. Friend’s terms require waiving the right to jury trials, class actions, and court proceedings, funneling disputes into arbitration in San Francisco. Buried within are clauses on “biometric data consent,” which grant the company permission to passively record audio and video, collect facial and voice data, and use these to train AI.

Schiffmann’s answer to the legal fine print is that Friend is a weird, first-of-its-kind product, so the terms of service are intentionally heavy. He added that the terms are “a bit extreme” by design—“so I don’t have to keep editing it”—and that with a three-person team and pricey lawyers he’s avoiding extra legal exposure. (He said he’s not selling in Europe to duck the regulatory headache.)

Anyone who buys this is an absolute mark.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Imagine thinking that you can "own" a device that relies on cloud computing.

you own the device and have a license to the software

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Nine hundred and $99